funnier

adjcomical, humorous
adjodd, peculiar

Synonyms for funnier

adj comical, humorous

Antonyms for funnier

Word Origin & History

"humorous," 1756, from fun + -y (2). Meaning "strange, odd" is 1806, said to be originally U.S. Southern. The two senses of the word led to the retort question "funny ha-ha or funny peculiar," which is attested from 1916. Related: Funnier; funniest. Funny farm "mental hospital" is slang from 1962. Funny bone "elbow end of the humerus" is 1826; funnies "newspaper comic strips" is from 1852.

Example Sentences for funnier

She was funnier than ever that day, as she was excited by the general joy.

You'll be the first prisoner I ever shot if you get any funnier!

The more amateurish the work, the funnier the public consider it.

There are funnier characters there than anywhere else I know.'

I don't do it in private, because it is funnier to do it in public.

He wasn't in training then, you know, and I have never seen any one funnier than he was.

That is, if you can be funnier at his expense than he at yours.

I'm going to skip over it and come to the funnier, happier part.

Oh, there are wags enough, I grant; not funnier d——ls in the world.

To Phil nothing was funnier than Alec Waterman in the throes of oratory.